Verifiable Access Credential Using Magnetic Particle Security
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for online access authentication lack high confidence in user identity verification, as passwords and private keys can be stolen or used under false identities, and require manual agent verification for government-issued identity documents.
Innovation Solution
A verifiable access credential document using a smartphone or computer with a magnetically induced mark and machine-readable barcode, where magnetically oriented reflective platelet-shaped particles create a secure link between the identity document and its data, allowing for automated high assurance authentication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If passwords or private keys are used for authentication, then access to online sites is authorized, but the level of confidence in user identity verification is low due to risk of theft or false identity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital copy of the government-issued identity document's security features and stores it in a secure element on the mobile device. This digital copy includes encoded images of security markings, magnetic ink character recognition patterns, and other authentication features. The system verifies the user's identity by comparing the digital copy against the physical document during authentication, eliminating the need to transmit or store actual passwords or private keys online.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a mobile device with a secure element as an intermediary between the user and the online authentication system. This intermediary stores and processes the digital copy of identity verification data locally on the device, acting as a trusted mediator that never exposes sensitive authentication information to remote servers. The intermediary handles the verification process through local processing of security feature comparisons.
2Reliability
If government-issued identity documents are used for authentication, then high confidence in identity verification is achieved, but manual agent verification is required which is time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical verification process with an automated electronic system. The mobile device captures images of the identity document's security features using its camera, processes these images through image recognition algorithms, and automatically verifies authentication markers. This electronic substitution eliminates the need for physical presentation of the document to an agent while maintaining high verification confidence through automated comparison of security markings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service authentication where the user independently completes the verification process without agent intervention. The mobile device automatically captures, processes, and verifies the identity document through built-in image recognition and comparison algorithms. The user simply presents the document to the device, and the system autonomously performs the authentication, eliminating time-consuming manual verification steps.
3Reliability
If security markings and biometry data are verified manually, then high confidence in identity is achieved, but the authentication process becomes complex and requires multiple verification steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple verification functions into a single integrated mobile application. The device combines image capture, image processing, security feature recognition, magnetic ink character recognition, and biometric verification into one unified authentication system. All verification steps are consolidated within the mobile device's secure element, eliminating the need for separate verification processes and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive security checks.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables direct online access with high confidence in user identity, eliminating the need for preliminary agent verification and enhancing security against fraud through the synergy of visible and encoded data verification.
Implementation Method 1
a second zone with an applied magnetically induced mark having a plane layer of a material including magnetically oriented reflective platelet-shaped magnetic or magnetizable pigment particles
Implementation Method 2
magnetically oriented reflective platelet-shaped magnetic or magnetizable pigment particles
Data Source
AI summary
The invention allows using a commodity hardware (e.g. a smartphone, a tablet, a computer . . . ) to automatically establish a high level of assurance authentication and identification of any government-issued identity document of a user (e.g. identity card, driving license, passport . . . ) and link that to digital identity counterpart. Moreover, the invention allows personalizing a material-based security feature provided of said government-issued identity document to create a link between the identity document and its data content that can be read by such a commodity hardware and serves as reliable credential for accessing a service once the material-based security feature has been authenticated via the commodity hardware and a signature of the identity data of the user has been authenticated by a server of an authority.